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Un artículo del magnífico blog del catalán Marc Belzunces nos comenta y amplía un artículo del Washington Post del pasado viernes que habla del incipiente sistema de bicis públicas de París (julio 2007), tomando como referencia el sistema establecido desde 2005 en la también ciudad francesa de Lyon. Marc compara los datos de ambos sistemas públicos de préstamo de bicicletas con el que acaba de instaurarse en Barcelona; nosotros intentaremos a continuación hacer lo propio con el que el ayuntamiento de Sevilla va a poner en marcha en mayo próximo.
| París | Barcelona | Sevilla | Lyon |
| Habitantes Ciudad | 2.153.600 | 1.605.602 | 724.414 | 465.300 |
| Habitantes Metrópoli | 11.100.000 | 4.841.365 | 1.327.000 | 1.648.216 |
| Bicis de Alquiler | 20.600 | 1.500 | 1.500 | 3.000 |
| Estaciones | 1.450 | 100 | 150 | 200 |
| Habitantes/Bici | 105 | 1.070 | 483 | 155 |
| Habitantes/Estación | 1.485 | 16.056 | 4.829 | 2.327 |
| Hab. metrop./Bici | 539 | 3.228 | 887 | 549 |
| Hab. metrop./Estación | 7.655 | 48.414 | 8.847 | 8.241 |
En el cuadro anterior se aprecia que el dimensionamiento de la red de préstamo de bicicletas no llega a las cifras de las ciudades francesas aunque es bastante mejor que las de Barcelona. Además, cuando más adelante se instale el segundo grupo de bicicletas (1.000 bicicletas y 100 estaciones más), la ratio será comparable a la de París o Lyon, muy lejos de la tímida apuesta barcelonesa (incluso con su segunda fase implantada), y sacaría ventaja en algunos parámetros en los que interviene la población del área metropolitana, menos abultada que en las otras ciudades de la comparativa.
Algunos datos interesantes del artículo del Washington Post:
- Precio de la tarjeta anual del sistema de préstamo: en Lyon y Sevilla 10 ¤, en Barcelona 24 ¤, en París 38 ¤.
- Precio de las medias horas adicionales: en Barcelona 0,30 ¤, en Sevilla estará entre 0,50 y 1 ¤, y en París el precio es progresivo (segunda media hora 1,30 ¤, la tercera 2,60 ¤ y la cuarta y sucesivas 5,20 ¤).
- El programa se paga cediendo contratos publicitarios tanto en París como en Sevilla, pero en Barcelona es financiado por Medio Ambiente.
- Tanto París como Sevilla instalarán el modelo de bicicleta de Ciclocity (valorado en unos 976 ¤), subsidiaria de JCDecaux instaurada ya, además de Lyon, en Viena, Bruselas y ciudades españolas como Córdoba y Gerona.
- En Lyon, un 10% de bicis son robadas anualmente, aunque muchas de ellas son recuperadas.
- En Lyon, el 95% de los desplazamientos en bicis públicas son gratuitos, es decir, dentro de la primera media hora. En esa ciudad, hay 52.000 suscriptores anuales del sistema, mientras que en Barcelona en los primeros días de uso del sistema se han registrado 1.150 altas.
- Desde que se inició el programa en Lyon (mayo 2005), el tráfico en la ciudad se ha reducido un 4%, evitando que 3.000 toneladas de CO2 sean emitidos a la atmósfera. El uso de la bici (pública y privada) se ha triplicado y con ello las ventas de bicis.
- La principal queja de los usuarios del sistema en Lyon es que a veces es imposible dejar la bicicleta en estaciones de lugares muy frecuentados, como ocurre con los centros universitarios en días lectivos.
Para terminar copio aquí el artículo completo del Washington Post (en inglés):
Paris Embraces Plan to Become City of Bikes
By John Ward Anderson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, March 24, 2007
PARIS, March 23 -- Paris is for lovers -- lovers of food and art and wine, lovers of the romantic sort and, starting this summer, lovers of bicycles.
On July 15, the day after Bastille Day, Parisians will wake up to discover thousands of low-cost rental bikes at hundreds of high-tech bicycle stations scattered throughout the city, an ambitious program to cut traffic, reduce pollution, improve parking and enhance the city's image as a greener, quieter, more relaxed place.
By the end of the year, organizers and city officials say, there should be 20,600 bikes at 1,450 stations -- or about one station every 250 yards across the entire city. Based on experience elsewhere -- particularly in Lyon, France's third-largest city, which launched a similar system two years ago -- regular users of the bikes will ride them almost for free.
"It has completely transformed the landscape of Lyon -- everywhere you see people on the bikes," said Jean-Louis Touraine, the city's deputy mayor. The program was meant "not just to modify the equilibrium between the modes of transportation and reduce air pollution, but also to modify the image of the city and to have a city where humans occupy a larger space."
The Socialist mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delano?, has the same aim, said his aide, Jean-Luc Dumesnil: "We think it could change Paris's image -- make it quieter, less polluted, with a nicer atmosphere, a better way of life."
But there is a practical side, too, Dumesnil said. A recent study analyzed different trips in the city "with a car, bike, taxi and walking, and the bikes were always the fastest."
The Lyon rental bikes, with their distinctive silver frame, red rear-wheel guard, handlebar basket and bell, can also be among the cheapest ways to travel, because the first half-hour is free, and most trips are shorter than that.
"It's faster than the bus or metro, it's good exercise, and it's almost free," said Vianney Paquet, 19, who is studying law in Lyon. Paquet said that he uses the rental bikes four or five times a day and pays 10 euros (about $13) a year, half for an annual membership fee and half for rental credit that he never actually spends because his rides typically last just a few minutes.
Anthonin Darbon, director of Cyclocity, which operates Lyon's program and won the contract to start up and run the one in Paris, said 95 percent of the roughly 20,000 daily bike rentals in Lyon are free because of their length.
Cyclocity is a subsidiary of outdoor advertising behemoth JCDecaux, which runs much smaller bike businesses in Brussels, Vienna and the Spanish cities of Cordoba and Girona. London, Dublin, Sydney and Melbourne reportedly are considering similar rental programs.
The Cyclocity concept evolved from utopian "bike-sharing" ideas that were tried in Europe in the 1960s and '70s, usually modeled on Amsterdam's famous "white bicycle" plan, in which idealistic hippies repaired scores of bicycles, painted them white, and left them on the streets for anyone to use for free. But in the end, the bikes were stolen and became too beat-up to ride. A number of U.S. cities, including Portland, Ore., have also experimented with community-use bicycle programs.
JCDecaux experimented with designs and developed a sturdier, less vandal-prone bike, along with a rental system to discourage theft: Each rider must leave a credit card or refundable deposit of about $195, along with personal information. In Lyon, about 10 percent of the bikes are stolen each year, but many are later recovered, Darbon said.
And to encourage people to return bikes quickly, rental rates rise the longer the bikes are out. In Paris, for instance, renting a bike will be free for the first 30 minutes, $1.30 for the next 30 minutes, $2.60 for the third half-hour, and $5.20 for the fourth half-hour of use and every 30 minutes after that. That makes the cost of a two-hour rental about $9.10.
Membership fees in Paris will be steeper than in Lyon, from $1.30 for one day to about $38 for a year.
The Paris deal will bring the world's biggest bicycle fleet to the City of Light in a complex, 10-year public-private partnership.
JCDecaux will provide all of the bikes (at a cost of about $1,300 apiece) and build the pickup/drop-off stations. Each will have 15 to 40 high-tech racks connected to a centralized computer that can monitor each bike's condition and location. Customers can buy a prepaid card or use a credit card at a computerized console to release a bike.
The company will pay start-up costs of about $115 million and employ the equivalent of about 285 people full time to operate the system and repair the bikes for 10 years. All revenue from the program will go to the city, and the company will also pay Paris a fee of about $4.3 million a year.
In exchange, Paris is giving the company exclusive control over 1,628 city-owned billboards, including the revenue from them, for the same period. About half the billboard space will be given back to the city at no cost for public-interest advertising.
Based on statistics from Lyon, company officials estimate that each bicycle in Paris will be used on average 12 times a day, for a total of about 250,000 trips a day, or 91 million trips a year.
In Lyon, according to deputy mayor Touraine, the city's 3,000 rental bikes have logged about 10 million miles since the program started in May 2005, saving an estimated 3,000 tons of carbon dioxide from being spewed into the air. Overall, vehicle traffic in the city is down 4 percent, he said, and bicycle use has tripled, not just on account of Cyclocity, but also because the program has prompted a boom in private bicycle use and sales.
The main complaint voiced by riders is that at certain times in certain places -- such as mornings at local universities -- all the racks can be occupied, making it impossible to return a bike. "I'm going to start using my own bike, because sometimes there are not enough spaces in the rack" at school, said art student Cecile Noiser, 19.
Company and city officials said that because the system sends in electronic data about which bikes are where, they are exploring ways to redistribute bikes using trucks to better match customers' needs. Touraine said the glitches are minor compared with the benefits.
Researcher Corinne Gavard contributed to this report.
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Re: Comparativa sistemas de bicis públicas por ciudades
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por Invitado en 24 Oct, 2007 - 07:31
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Os recomiendo ver el bigloo, además de alquilar bicicletas puedes aparcar la tuya
http://elistas.egrupos.net/lista/bacc-ciclotimes/archivo/msg/336/#
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Re: Comparativa sistemas de bicis públicas por ciudades por Invitado en 05 Ene, 2008 - 05:23
Re: Comparativa sistemas de bicis públicas por ciudades
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por Invitado en 28 Oct, 2007 - 07:33
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Faltan estadísticas sobre vandalismo. Un amigo francés ha venido unos días a Sevilla y lo que más le ha sorprendido de Sevici (que él se empeña en llamar Vélib, como en París) es el buen estado de las bicicletas. Dice que en París le cuesta trabajo encontrar Vélibs en estado de uso, porque están en gran parte destrozadas.
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Ciclofilia con los trabajadores de Cerámicas Bellavista
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Un saludo afectuoso a todas aquellas personas que hacen de la bicicleta, con su uso y disfrute, una apuesta de belleza. El pedaleo escribe sobre negro asfalto o camino polvoriento
y ausente, el rastro pausado del ciclista cuya sola presencia atesora la paz silente del engranaje y la serenidad constante del caminante. Sigamos haciendo relatos.
Pedro Luis Ibáñez Lérida
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